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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: Last Hussar on 25 May 2018, 07:45:40 PM

Title: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Last Hussar on 25 May 2018, 07:45:40 PM
I've bought the two army books for Field of Glory Napoleonic.

The main rules are Vol I. Volume II is Triumph of Nations,covering 1809 to 1815. Volume III is Eagles And Emperors, covering 1792 to 1807.

Think about that. Specifically consider when I put them on my bookshelf.

These are not just hope for wargamers, but NAPOLEONIC wargamers the gamers other wargamers go "calm down mate, its just a game".

These people are monsters.
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 25 May 2018, 08:15:03 PM
Pity the rules died in the competition set up, they had potential, but...

They felt wrong!
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Ithoriel on 25 May 2018, 10:47:38 PM
Meh! Nothing of note happened in 1808 ;)
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: FierceKitty on 26 May 2018, 12:28:25 AM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 25 May 2018, 10:47:38 PM
Meh! Nothing of note happened in 1808 ;)

I thought there were a few frontier scraps between the Egyptians and the Nubians.
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Ithoriel on 26 May 2018, 12:48:46 AM
Well, with the death of Amenemhat III in that year a little unrest among the Nubian tribes was to be expected :)
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: fsn on 26 May 2018, 06:36:40 AM
I'm going for the writers being the dishonourable sons of a thousand fathers.

Even if nothing happened in 1808 (which is not true), my OCD wouldn't allow me to permit that missing year. I suggest you put the books in a locked box, and only open it after a period of meditation and/or whisky.

Unless of course, there will be an 1808 supplement?
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Last Hussar on 26 May 2018, 07:33:02 AM
No doubt they will make that volume 5...

Actually 1808 is covered in vol 3 at the end "other theatres of war", including the Peninsula and the East.
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: sunjester on 26 May 2018, 08:29:34 AM
But how do you put them on the shelf? Volume I (the rules) is OK, but do you put the others in series order or chronological order? :- :d
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Last Hussar on 26 May 2018, 09:04:58 AM
That was sort of my point, derailed by people worrying about 1808.

As the volume numbers are on the spine, in that order.
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Ithoriel on 26 May 2018, 01:41:08 PM
Shelve by Classification Number (Dewey Decimal, Library of Congress or other system of choice) then by Series Title, then Date of Publication, Volume Number or Part Title in that order.

Or so I was taught a millenia or so ago when I was at Library College.

So, in your case, Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3

Simples :)
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Last Hussar on 26 May 2018, 02:48:53 PM
But but but

They will be in the wrong order!
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Leman on 26 May 2018, 06:46:03 PM
Flipping 'eck, somebody seems to need a copy of the Little Book of Calm.
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Last Hussar on 26 May 2018, 07:48:19 PM
I had it. Didn't know whether to put it under L for little or C for Calm.
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: petercooman on 26 May 2018, 08:32:28 PM
What about putting them upside down? Then they count back from 1815 to 1792 :d
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 27 May 2018, 06:06:27 AM
This is getting far too SILLY !!!"!!!
Title: Re: Evil or just ****holes?
Post by: FierceKitty on 27 May 2018, 07:54:08 AM
Quite agree, quite agree, too silly, too silly....